www.icuh2014.com is
happy to announce the Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University
College London (UCL) and Fellow of the English Faculty of Public Health Medicine,
Professor Sir Michael Marmot as a special guest speaker at the conference next
March (4th – 7th).
Professor Marmot graduated in medicine in 1965 from the University of Sydney, he went on to achieve an MPH and a PHD from the University of California, Berkley.
As well as his role at UCL, Professor Marmot has been
involved in some ground breaking studies of heart disease and strokes comparing
people in Japan (high stroke rates, low heart attack rates)
with those in Hawaii and California. More recently he led the Whitehall studies
of British civil servants which focused again on heart disease and other
disease patterns, this work inspired the American documentary, ‘Unnatural
Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?’ a series that examined the social
determinants of health.
He has a particular interest in health inequalities and why
they are caused and he is the government’s official advisor on how to identify
and mitigate them. He served on the Scientific Advisory Group of the
Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health chaired by former UK Chief
Medical Officer, Sir Donald Acheson.
Professor Marmot was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in
2002, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health
inequalities. Internationally acclaimed,
Professor Marmot is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM ), and a former Vice President of the Academia
Europaea. He won the Balzan Prize for
Epidemiology in 2004, gave the Harveian Oration in 2006, and won the William B.
Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2008.
To hear Professor Sir Michael Marmot talk about his work at ICUH 2014 (4th – 7th March) you can register at http://www.icuh2014.com/Home/RegCard or via our Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/icuh2014 and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter!https://twitter.com/ICUH2014
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